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James Naylor
Professor
Department of History
Brandon University
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From: Marc Lendler [mailto:mlendler@smith.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 11:17 AM
To: Brandon University 1919strikeconference <1919strikeconference@BrandonU.CA>
Subject: Fwd: Undeliverable: Sources on Winnipeg Strike
A few years ago, I was doing research on a different topic and came across some eyewitness accounts of the Winnipeg general strike that might not be known to people who have researched it. My subject was the Criminal Anarchy trials of
five leaders of the Communist Labor Party in New York City in 1920.
In each of the four trials, there was extensive testimony from a participant in the Winnipeg strike. In the first trial of Ben Gitlow, the testimony was given by Major Furry Ferguson Montague, who was part of a veteran's committee doing police work during
the strike. In the other three trials, the testimony was from George Robert Lovatt, who represented the policeman's union on the strike committee. The most extensive Winnipeg testimony was given in the last of the trials , of Charles Ruthenberg and Isaac
E. Ferguson.
I know that in recreating the circumstances of those New York trials, I was always excited to find some new source, especially a contemporaneous one. So I decided
to convey the existence of these possibly unexplored accounts of the Winnipeg strike to people doing historical work on it. Please forward this to anyone who might find it useful.
Marc Lendler
Government Dept.
Smith College